http://www.paulsrichards.com Web Developer Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:47:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Now that Zend Server has had its public beta release I thought it was finally worth a installation to see what its all about. One of the main differences between this and xampp that jumped out at me was there was a Mac version to download along side Linux (rpm ... http://www.paulsrichards.com/2009/02/27/zend-server-vs-xampp/ With the release of the jQuery 1.3 on the 24th Janurary 2009 see's the new feature called 'Live Events'. This goes some way to solve the jQuery problem of creating dom elements on the fly which then have no events bound. Then your normally required to rebind any event handlers ... http://www.paulsrichards.com/2009/01/26/no-more-re-binding-with-jquery-13/ popmenu is a jQuery plugin that allows you to create simple 'pop-up' menu's like which appear on web sites like play.com. It is currently being used at ikonsports.com. It has similar functionality jQuery's hover(over, out) but with a few more options specifically geared towards pop up menus. Most importantly it will ... http://www.paulsrichards.com/2008/10/01/jquery-plugin-popmenu/ The latest version of Jabroo is available for testing out online. Its available at new.jabroo.com or following the link at the top of the Jabroo home page. This version has been designed to make finding that font as easy as possible. Like the previous Jabroo the fonts are separated into categories ... http://www.paulsrichards.com/2008/08/10/jabroo-version-3-now-online/ Persistent sessions is a set of mechanisms created in php that allow authentication to persist across multiple browser sessions (ie closing down the browser). Any session variables you set in php are destroyed and cant be used in further sessions. This means annoyingly that your users must then sign into ... http://www.paulsrichards.com/2008/07/29/persistent-sessions-with-php/ I've often found reading information quickly and correctly from a large HTML table difficult. I would like to share a small piece of jQuery code I wrote to help improve the readability of large tables. It provides two functions. Highlight the row of the table on which the mouse is ... http://www.paulsrichards.com/2008/07/25/improving-table-usabiltity-with-jquery/ As a PHP web developer I've tried many different tools to aid my work. There are many tools out there to try and I encourage you to do so, but I have complied a list of what consider essential to make your job as easy as possible. If anyone has ... http://www.paulsrichards.com/2008/07/05/essential-free-php-web-development-tools/ Users of Jabroo.com will of experienced server problems for the last week (29th June 08 - 3rd July 08). Unfortunately the server has been down due to some technical difficulties with upgrading from a Godaddy VPS to a newer faster server. Please accept my apologies for any problems. Some has ... http://www.paulsrichards.com/2008/07/05/jabroo-server-problems/ While making a e commerce application I wanted the ability to easily sort product and categories by click and drag. Basically to allow the customer to re-order the way their products and categories are displayed. No doubt that you've seen application that have numerous "move up" and "move down" buttons ... http://www.paulsrichards.com/2008/06/18/jquery-table-sorter/ The latest version of Mozilla Firefox is due to be released later early next week on the 17th June 2008. I've been participating in the pre-release testing and cant say enough good points about it. If it wasn't for incompatibility for certain addons I use (namely firebug) I would of ... http://www.paulsrichards.com/2008/06/14/firefox-3-the-best-bits/